En muchas partes del mundo, el aumento del crecimiento agrícola tendrá un papel clave contribuyendo a superar la actual crisis alimentaria mundial, aportando al crecimiento económico general, y ayudando a lograr el primer Objetivo de Desarrollo pa

The current food price crisis has received widespread attention, but discussions to date have largely overlooked the gender dimensions of the crisis.

The current food crisis has several causes-rising demand for food and feed, biofuels, high oil prices, climate change, stagnant agricultural productivity growth-but there is increasing evidence that the crisis is being made worse by the malfunctio

In many parts of the world, increased agricultural growth will play a key role in addressing the current world food crisis, in contributing to overall economic growth, and in helping to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal of halving the

Given that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest incidence of poverty and malnutrition in the world, the stagnation in per capita grain production there is worrisome.

Starting in the mid-1990s, Africa embarked upon its longest period of sustained, positive per capita income growth since the 1960s.

Social protection involves policies and programs that protect people against risk and vulnerability, mitigate the impacts of shocks, and support people who suffer from chronic incapacities to secure basic livelihoods.